Many patients with advanced Merkel cell carcinoma who received the immunotherapeutic pembrolizumab as first-line therapy in a phase II clinical trial had durable responses. Merkel cell carcinima is a...

In a study of 36 women – 16 diagnosed with ovarian cancer and a control group of 20 with no cancer diagnosis – nearly all of the women were found to carry cancer-associated gene mutations.
The study...

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A team of University of Washington surgeons have rebuilt a patient’s upper jaw and hard palate in a rare procedure that employed three-...

How a key protein in cancer cells changes its shape, function and interactions with other proteins when exposed to different concentrations of cancer drugs is the topic of a University of Washington...